Grocery Stores · North Carolina

00504 - Store # 504 Hickory

Name: 00504 - Store # 504 Hickory Workplace Safety Data
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Hickory, NC · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · September 26, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.5
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

00504 - Store # 504 Hickory runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery Stores workplace, earning a grade B.

00504 - Store # 504 Hickory: 2.5 TCR = 73% of Grocery Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

00504 - Store # 504 Hickory safety composite

00504 - Store # 504 Hickory scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

00504 - Store # 504 Hickory: 0.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2023

00504 - Store # 504 Hickory's TCR rose 5.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 5.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 73% of ind

DART 2.5 DART
RANK #607/1627
PHOTO Store 0882
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 0882 (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.5
Store 0882

2.5
Store 1362

2.5
Superior Groce

2.5
Store 1237

2.5

What this shows 00504 - Store # 504 Hickory averages 2.5 TCR (73% of the Grocery Stores BLS benchmark).

00504 - Store # 504 Hickory TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=5 · BLS 3.4

Where 00504 - Store # 504 Hickory falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Stores establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #607 safest of 1627 Grocery Stores employers in North Carolina.

00504 - Store # 504 Hickory (71 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

00504 - Store # 504 Hickory has fewer employees than the Grocery Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries	Illnesses	Fatalities
2023	5.0	2.5	2	0	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Hickory

30,654 Grocery Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Store 0882	HOOVER, AL	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Store 1362	DAPHNE, AL	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Superior Grocers 138	OXNARD, CA	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Store 1237	STUART, FL	2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Wallace Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center	WALLACE	71 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Starmount Health and Rehabilitation Center	GREENSBORO	71 FTE
STATE-SIZE	5375_14752	LEXINGTON	71 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Liberty Commons Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Of Bladen County	ELIZABETHTOWN	71 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Catawba Valley Medical Center	Hickory	2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Merchants Distributors LLC	Hickory	1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Frye Regional Medical Center	Hickory	1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center	Hickory	1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR	Ripley Metalworks	Ripley, OH	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Midwest Block - Stlb	Bridgeton, MO	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Herff Jones Yearbook Division	Edwardsville, KS	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Magna Electric Vehicle Structures - Michigan	St Clair, MI	2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Stop & Shop 100701	Newport, RI	71 FTE
NAT-SIZE	RiverPlace Hotel	Portland, OR	71 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Royal Farms Dairy LLC	Garden City, KS	71 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Quikrete - Phx	Buckeye, AZ	71 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.